“Jane Dolinger 101” – required for students of vintage men’s magazines…

There’s a new book out about Jane Dolinger — the brainy and beautiful adventurer, author and pin-up model I featured in a previous post on this blog. It’s a biography…

Scorpions ripped my flesh! (in men’s pulp magazine art)

Many kinds of “killer creatures” were featured on the covers of men’s adventure magazines in the 1950s and 1960s: big animals, small animals, fish, birds, crabs and various creepy crawlies,…

More wild men’s pulp magazine stories about Leopard Men and Leopard Women…

As I noted in a previous post, there really were “Leopard Men” in Africa. They were members of a secretive religious cult called The Leopard Society. They actually did wear…

Tattoo artists Cash Cooper and Kat Von D – a look at women’s skin art in 1964 and today

Recently, I read an article in the June 1964 issue of Men in Danger magazine that made me think of tattoo artist Kat Von D, the star of the reality…